Quotes and Aphorisms 24.03.2018
Dear readers, undoubtedly, music plays a huge role in our lives. It inspires and calms, entertains and adds solemnity important points, helps us tune in to the right mood and express something that inspires or worries us. That’s why we not only listen to music with such passion, but also talk about it, share our impressions, favorite compositions, and advise what to listen to.
And although, as the famous said American composer and singer Frank Zappa, “talking about music is like dancing about architecture,” there are so many quotes about music. And that’s what we’ll be talking about today on the blog.
In general, and about each person individually, ancient philosophers and sages wrote. Let's see how accurate and deep their quotes about music are.
What the greats said about music
“Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination; music gives life and joy to everything that exists... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime.”
"Difficult to find best method education than that which has already been found by the experience of so many centuries; it can be briefly defined as consisting of gymnastics for the body and music for the soul.”
"For this reason musical education is extremely important, because it allows rhythm and harmony to penetrate the soul as deeply as possible, filling it with beauty and giving a person a sense of beauty.”
Plato
Plato's student, Aristotle, who educated Alexander the Great and was no less famous than his teacher, fully shared his opinion about the enormous influence of music on man.
“Music is capable of having a certain effect on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, it should be included among the subjects of youth education.”
"Music ennobles morals."
Aristotle
These quotes about music with meaning are not just loud words. They reflect a reverent attitude towards music as a science, as an indisputable and integral part of a person’s upbringing and education. And music in ancient times was indeed not only art - it was one of the most important scientific disciplines along with mathematics, philosophy, medicine.
What is music anyway? Is it possible to describe in words great role, which it plays in our lives, and measure the impact it has on us? Quotes about the music of great people will help us get closer to this understanding.
“Music is a source of joy wise people“, it is capable of evoking good thoughts among the people, it penetrates deeply into their consciousness and easily changes morals and customs.”
“Music is the fragrant flower of goodness.”
Xun Tzu
“Where the words end, the music begins.”
Heinrich Heine
“Music is the universal language of humanity.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is a healer of health."
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev
“Music is the highest art in the world.”
“Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it transfers me to some other position, not my own; Under the influence of music, it seems to me that I feel something that I, in fact, do not feel, that I understand something that I do not understand, that I can do something that I cannot... She, music, immediately directly transfers me to that state of mind, in which was the one who wrote the music. I merge with him in soul and together with him I am transferred from one state to another.”
“Music is a shorthand of feelings.”
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“No picture, no word can express the most essential, most intimate content of the heart like music; her warmth is incomparable, irreplaceable.”
Kuno Fischer
“There are moments in which you completely feel the lack of earthly language; you would like to express yourself with some kind of harmony, music. Music is the immaterial daughter of material sounds; it alone can transfer the trembling of one soul to another, pour over a sweet, unaccountable longing..."
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
“The greatness of art is perhaps most clearly manifested in music, for it has no content that must be taken into account. She is all forms and fillings. She makes everything that she undertakes to express sublime and noble.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Music is an acoustic composition that arouses in us an appetite for life, just as well-known pharmaceutical compounds arouse an appetite for food.”
Vasily Klyuchevsky
Music and soul
Quotes about music and soul reflect the idea of close connection between music and the state of harmony it evokes in us. It is impossible not to succumb to her influence, not to follow her. Music is the tuning fork of our soul, the most obvious indicator of our state of mind. It cleanses and awakens our heart, opens it to goodness and light.
“I don’t listen to music, I listen to my soul.”
Marina Tsvetaeva
“Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that exist in his soul.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“God gave us music so that, first of all, we would be drawn upward by it...”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music is the only universal language; it does not need to be translated - soul speaks to soul in it.”
“Music washes away the dust from the soul Everyday life».
Bertold Averbakh
“Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and revives it.”
Romain Rolland
“There is something magical about rhythm: it makes us believe that the sublime belongs to us.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Just as gymnastics straightens the body, so music straightens the human soul.”
Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky
"Only greatest art“Music can touch the depths of the soul.”
Maksim Gorky
Beautiful about music
You can talk and write about music endlessly and not repeat yourself. Music is the air. This is the whole Universe. This is something under the influence of which we change, even if we are not aware of it. Just listen to what wonderful words have been said about her, what beautiful quotes about music!
“Music is the pairing of art. It is to the art of poetry what dreams are to thought, what to the ocean of waves is the ocean of clouds above it.”
Victor Marie Hugo
“Music is inferior to love alone, but love is also a melody.”
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
“Music is the poetry of the air.”
Jean Paul
“Music, with its melody, takes us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness in a few minutes.”
Thomas Carlyle
"Bach almost makes me believe in God..."
Roger Fry
“When music cries, all of humanity cries with it, all of nature cries.”
Henri Bergson
“Music, without mentioning anything, can say everything.”
Ilya Erenburg
Famous musicians about music
Our whole world is like a huge mosaic picture, consisting of sounds, colors, light. It is not surprising that with the help of music we explore the world and reveal our souls to other people. By revealing our musical preferences, it’s as if we are sharing our most intimate things.
And who can speak better about music than those who touched it directly, who were involved in its creation, who bring it into our world. After all, music is their whole life, and to confirm this there are quotes about the music of famous musicians.
“I only live in this world to write music.”
Franz Schubert
“Where words are powerless, a more eloquent language—music—is fully armed.”
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Words sometimes need music, but music needs nothing.”
Edvard Grieg
“The purpose of music is to touch hearts.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to affirm and mix with thought, as it is forced to do in most arts, especially in the art of words...”
Franz Liszt
“Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings.”
“Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensory life.” “Music is one ethereal entrance into upper world
knowledge that humanity comprehends, but which man cannot comprehend.”
"Music should strike fire from people's hearts."
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music needs words as little as sculpture.”
Anton Rubinstein “Love and study the great art of music. It will reveal to you the whole world
high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new strengths in yourself that were previously unknown to you. You will see life in new tones and colors.”
Dmitry Shostakovich
“We don’t listen to music, but music listens to us.”
Theodor Adorno It's impossible to imagine modern music without such a huge cultural layer as rock music. The evolution of this musical direction
took less than seventy years, originating from blues rock and roll, and now it already occupies a huge musical niche, giving birth to more and more new branches. Actually, this is the secret of the popularity of rock music - everyone can find a genre to their liking in it, it will find an approach to everyone and select the appropriate key to their heart. Quotes about rock music and rock musicians perfectly describe why it has been so popular for many decades in a row.
“Rock is a riot in any case. Rock is, in any case, a protest against the system. But this is not necessarily an approval of some other system instead of the existing one. Even if you can’t offer any better alternative, then agreeing with what is, in my opinion, is wrong.”
Gleb Samoilov
“Rock is the ability to bring freedom into the world, into the minds of people.”
Taylor Momsen
“Rock is a movement, it is history, it is truth and freedom, it is a force that can move mountains and unite common efforts. There is no place for hypocrisy, window dressing, parody, or lies in rock. Rock is not just music. Rock music is life."
Lusine Gevorkyan
“Our job is not to show technical tricks on the guitar, but to awaken emotions in people!”
David Gilmour
“Rock and roll is eternal because it is simple, there is nothing superfluous in it. Its rhythm penetrates all barriers. I read a book by Elridge Cleaver - he writes about how blacks helped with their music to the white man find yourself, become aware of your body. Their music has penetrated us forever. Already at the age of fifteen, nothing existed for me except rock and roll in this life.
Its strength lies in some special realism. The amazing naturalness of rock strikes you even at the very first acquaintance with it. In a word, this is true art."
“I don’t know which will disappear first: religion or rock. I'm betting on the former."
John Lennon
“I am proud to have the brand of rock and roll on my soul!”
Paul McCartney
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato. Teacher of Alexander the Great. The first scientist who created a system of philosophy that covers all aspects of human life and development.
Music is capable of having a certain effect on the ethical side of the soul, and since music has such properties, then obviously it should be included in the number of subjects in the education of youth.
Bart Karl (1886-1968)
Swiss theologian*. While a civil servant in Germany, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler. He wrote a work in 13 volumes, “Church Dogmatics**”.
I don’t know if it’s true that angels only play Bach in the presence of God, but I’m sure that in my home circle they only play Mozart.
* A theologian is a person who studies and expounds the doctrine of God, writes essays about it.
** Dogmatics is a section of theology that sets out the basic rules of a religion.
Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich (1811-1848)
Russian writer and critic.
In children from the very early years the sense of grace must be developed as one of the primary elements of humanity. The influence of music is beneficial, and the sooner they begin to experience it for themselves, the better.
Bekhterev Vladimir Mikhailovich (1857-1927)
Outstanding Russian neuropathologist, physiologist, psychologist, academician. He pointed to economic conditions as the cause of the spread of mental illness, and raised the issue of instilling work skills in teenagers.
Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is a healer of health.
Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich (1809-1852)
Great Russian writer.
“But if music leaves us, what will happen to our world then?”
Dvorak Antonin (1841-1904)
Czech composer, conductor.
An orchestra is a people, and a quartet is a family.
Derzhavin Gabriel Romanovich (1743 – 1816)
Russian poet. He held senior government positions.
“...music represents invisible objects... depicts only the feeling of the heart and cannot depict anything physical.”
Dickens Charles (1812-1970)
English writer.
The inconspicuous but undeniable influence of music on a person instills humane tastes and aspirations, dispels prejudices, instills humanity and benevolence.
Doga Evgeniy Dmitrievich
Composer. People's Artist of the USSR, National artist Moldova, laureate State Prize USSR, academician.
I often look with pity at people who do not understand where to find the source of a good state of mind and in general Have a good mood. After all, in music, in literature, in art in general there is so much energy, so many still unexplored sensations, emotions, strengths, possibilities.
Kabalevsky Dmitry Borisovich (1904-1987)
Composer, teacher, educator, People's Artist of the USSR. Author of many works. Developed the system musical education in a secondary school.
Any musical image is an image of a person. Every musical image contains a piece of life.
Karamzin Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826)
Russian writer, historian. Creator of “History of the Russian State.”
Heavenly music! Enjoying you, I rise in spirit and do not envy the angels. Who will prove to me that my soul, convenient for such holy, pure, ethereal joys, did not have something divine, incorruptible in itself? Siya gentle sounds, wafting like marshmallows on my heart, can they be the food of death, a brute creature?
Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (1649-1716)
Outstanding German mathematician, diplomat and philosopher.
Nothing is so pleasant for the senses as consonance in music, and for the mind - consonance in nature, in relation to which the first is only a small example. Music is an imitation of the universal harmony put into the world by God.
Mechnikov Ilya Ilyich (1845-1916)
Russian and French biologist. Nobel Prize winner.
Music is a sphere in which human art has become immeasurably higher than nature.
Plato (428 BC-348 BC)
The greatest philosopher Ancient Greece, founder of his own philosophical school - the Academy, which existed for 1000 years. The founder of the idealistic direction in philosophy. He was an Olympic champion in wrestling.
Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination; music gives life and joy to everything that exists... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and sublime.
Rousseau Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
French writer and composer.
Melody alone is the source of the invincible power that inspired art possesses.
The greatest of the wonders of music, which acts only through movement, is its ability to convey to them even an image of peace. Sleep, the silence of the night, solitude and even silence are among the musical pictures.
Sukhomlinsky Vasily Alexandrovich
Outstanding teacher, corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
Music is a powerful source of thought.
Music is a powerful means of self-education.
Shakespeare William (1564-1616)
English playwright and poet.
There is no living creature on earth
So tough, cool, hellishly evil,
So that I couldn’t at least for an hour
In it, music makes a revolution.
Who does not carry music within himself,
Who is cold to the lovely harmony
He may be a traitor, a liar,
Robber of the soul.
His movements
Dark as night and as Erebus* his love is black.
Don't trust such a person.
Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilievich (1711-1765)
The first world-class Russian scientist, chemist, physicist, geologist, poet.
Sweet sounds of native song and music live human soul awaken the mind and cultivate high feelings.
Popov Viktor Sergeevich (1934-2008)
Founder, artistic director And chief conductor Bolshoi Children's Choir All-Union Radio and Central television, artistic director of the Academy of Choral Art (since 2009 named after V.S. Popov), People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Presidential Prize of the Russian Federation, professor.
Sveshnikov Alexander Vasilievich (1890-1980)
Choral conductor, People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the State Academic Russian Choir of the USSR, founder and artistic director of the Moscow State Choir School, professor.
…One of the most accessible and at the same time the most effective ways introduce people to high musical culture lies through playing music in the choir.
Struve Georgy Alexandrovich (1932-2004)
Composer, choirmaster, educator. Creator of a system of mass training in choral singing.
The choir is a prototype ideal society, based on a single aspiration and harmonious breathing, a society in which it is important to hear the other, to listen to each other, a society in which individuality is not suppressed, but is fully revealed.
…singing, especially choral singing, is a true indicator of the health of the nation. A people brought up on spiritual song is noble and great.
Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881)
Russian writer and thinker.
Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Great German composer, organist, teacher.\
The purpose of music is to touch hearts.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
German composer, pianist.
Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings.
Music should strike fire from people's hearts.
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
German composer, pianist, conductor.
Writing music is not difficult, the hardest thing is crossing out the extra notes.
Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
French composer, representative of musical impressionism.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds, just as optics is the geometry of light.
Music lovers and connoisseurs are not born, but become... To love music, you must first listen to it.Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas... We don’t know any piece of music chanting malice, hatred, robbery.
N.A. Rimsky - Korsakov (1844-1906)
Russian composer, teacher, conductor, public figure, musical critic; member of the "Mighty Handful".
« Painting gives an image and a thought, and you need to create a mood in your imagination.Poetry words are given by thought, and according to it you need to create an image and mood, andmusic gives a mood, and according to it it is necessary to recreate a thought and an image.”
Georgy Sviridov (1915 – 1998)
Soviet and Russian composer, pianist. People's Artist of the USSR.
“Music heals the soul of people, makes them strong and wise.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Austrian composer and virtuoso musician.
“Mozart is the youth of music, it is an eternally young spring, bringing to humanity the joy of spring renewal."(D. Shostakovich)
Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)
French composer of the Romantic period, author famous opera"Carmen"
“There are no kinds of music except two - good and bad.”
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Soviet composer, pianist, musical and public figure, doctor of art history, teacher, professor; People's Artist of the USSR.
“Mighty is time, which has nurtured such talent. But the talent that expressed such a time is also powerful. Shostakovich’s work is the musical emblem of the twentieth century.”(T. Khrennikov)
COMPOSERS ABOUT COMPOSERS
God is God, and Bach is Bach.
Hector Berlioz(1803–1869), French composer
Bach is like an astronomer who uses numbers to find the most beautiful stars.
Fryderyk Chopin(1810–1849), Polish composer
Bach is great, but boring.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky(1840–1893), composer
I liked your opera. Perhaps I'll write music for it.
Ludwig van Beethoven - to a German composer
I don’t understand how a man of such power could so often fall into banality.
Igor Stravinsky about Beethoven
Gaetano Donizetti was asked if it was possible that Rossini wrote " Barber of Seville"in just twenty days. “It’s quite possible,” Donizetti replied. “Rossini always wrote slowly.”
There is more content and true invention in the aria "Heart of Beauties" than in the rhetoric and screams of the [Wagner] tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung".
Igor Stravinsky(1882–1971), composer
Poor Glinka, a kind of Russian Rossini, was Beethovenized and turned into a national monument.
Igor Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky's main strengths are grace (in ballets: I consider Tchaikovsky primarily a ballet composer) and a sense of humor.
Igor Stravinsky
The most accurate of the Swiss watchmakers.
Igor Stravinsky about Maurice Ravel
Richard should be Wagner and Strauss should be Johann.
Rehashed Claude Debussy
Puccini wrote wonderful operas, but terrible music.
high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new strengths in yourself that were previously unknown to you. You will see life in new tones and colors.”(1906–1975), composer
Maurice Ravel refused the Legion of Honor, but all his music accepts this distinction.
Erik Satie(1866–1925), French composer
It is quite sobering to think that Mozart, at my age, had already died a year ago.
Tom Lehrer(b. 1928), American songwriter
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For many centuries, music has lived in the hearts of people, makes us create, gives us inspiration and helps us discover new talents. Brilliant paintings and amazing poems written under the influence of music - no less than the stars in the sky.
For each of us, music is a piece of the soul, something that cannot be described in words. But there are also those who found suitable letters and created statements that surprisingly clearly reflect the essence of the music. Perhaps some of the thoughts of great minds will coincide with your feelings and emotions?
Statements about the music of great composers
"Music is a popular need."
"Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings."
"Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy."
"Music should strike fire from people's hearts"
“Music, even in the most terrible dramatic situations, should always captivate the ear, always remain music.”
“Real music is always revolutionary, it unites people, worries them, calls them forward.
Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas.
Music accompanies a person throughout his life. It is difficult to imagine human life without music. Without the sounds of music, it would be incomplete, deaf, poor... People need all types of music - from the simple tune of a pipe to the sound of a huge symphony orchestra, from a simple popular song to Beethoven sonatas.
Love and study the great art of music. It will open up to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new strengths in yourself that were previously unknown to you. You will see life in new tones and colors"
"The purpose of music is to touch hearts"
“Musical material, that is, melody, harmony and rhythm, is certainly inexhaustible.
Music is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common benefit."
"Music has no fatherland; its fatherland is the whole universe" (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin).
"Music cannot think, but it can embody thought" (Richard Wilhelm Wagner).
“Music is the noblest, the heartiest, the most soulful, the most charming, the most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented.
Music needs words as little as sculpture." (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein).
"Music is like a drama. The queen (melody) has more power, but the decision always rests with the king" (Robert Schumann).
Sayings about the music of great philosophers
“Music inspires the whole world, provides the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination”(Plato).
"Music ennobles morals.
Music can have a certain effect on the ethical side of the soul." (Aristotle).
"Life would be a mistake without music" (Friedrich Nietzsche).
"Music is the soul's unconscious exercise in arithmetic" (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
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“Music encourages us to think eloquently.
Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that exist in his soul." (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Statements about the music of great Russian writers
Of the pleasures of life, music is second only to love, But love is also a melody."(Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin).
"Music is the highest art in the world."
"Music is a shorthand of feelings."
“Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it takes me to some other position, not my own” (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy).
"Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds" (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev).
“Don’t believe that a person can understand music right away. It’s impossible. You have to get used to it first.
Music has a greater connection with the moral actions of a person than is usually thought."(Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky).
"Statements about the music of great foreign writers
Where is the music, it can’t be bad!” (Miguel de Cervantes).
"Music is the poetry of the air.
Oh music! Echo of the distant harmonious world! The sigh of an angel in our soul!" (Jean Paul Richter).
"Music is thinking noise" (Victor Marie Hugo).
"Music drowns out sadness" (William Shakespeare).
“Music for me is like poetry and, of all types of poetry, it is the most deeply exciting.
Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonious echo of its joys and sorrows.
Music, like rain, drop by drop, seeps into the heart and revives it." (Romain Rolland).
"Music is the only universal language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it"(Berthold Auerbach).
"Music is the universal language of humanity" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
“Perfect music brings the heart into exactly the same state as one experiences when enjoying the presence of a beloved being, that is, music undoubtedly gives the brightest happiness that is possible on earth.” (Stendhal).
“The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to excite these unrest, and it itself is also inspired by them.” (George Sand).
“Music is the language of the soul and the melody of gentle breezes that vibrate the strings of feelings; it is thin fingers that resurrect on the pages of fantasy memories of hours of true sorrow and despair or of brief moments of true joy and fun.” (Khalil Gibran).
“Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; it achieves more: when it evokes it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those dear to us, in a mysterious and sad veil.” (Germaine de Stael).
“Music, with its melody, takes us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.” (Thomas Carlyle).
"Statements about the music of other famous personalities
Music is the true universal human speech." (Carl Julius Weber).
“Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education, full mental development is impossible.
Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings" (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).
"All art strives to become music" (Walter Horeisho Pater).
“Music is an acoustic composition that arouses in us an appetite for life, just as well-known pharmaceutical compounds arouse an appetite for food.” (Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky).
"Music, just like any other human language, must be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, from its historical development" (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov).
"Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is a healer of health"(Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev).
Of course, much more wonderful things have been said about music. May be. Did we miss your favorite quote or do you have something to say yourself? Team music school“Virtuosi” awaits your own statements with trepidation, and will also be grateful for valuable additions on the topic “Great Minds - About Music”!
Although... “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture,” said American musician David Byrne.
Music- this is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev)
Music- a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Music- the source of joy for wise people. (Xun Tzu)
Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig Beethoven)
Music- the only universal language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it. (Bertold Averbach)
Music- popular need. (Ludwig Beethoven)
The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in Music. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
When we perceive with the ear rhythm And melody, ours is changing spiritual mood. (Aristotle)
Music is a type of art that embodies ideological and emotional content in sound artistic images.
Music is an art whose subject is sound that changes over time.
Music there is as little need for words as sculpture. (Anton Rubinstein)
These sayings can be used in many ways: posted in the classroom, read to students. You can invite students to listen to the statement and try to retell it in their own way, explaining how they understand the idea expressed. This work engages middle-aged students and generates fruitful discussion.
“Music is sounds, but music is also a whole mass of feelings that are revealed in these sounds for sensitive people.” A. Lunacharsky
“Music is a revelation higher than wisdom.” R. Rolland
“Music is a subject that gives a person pleasure and pleasure.” Y.A. Komensky
“Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonious echo of its joys and sorrows.” R. Rolland
“Music is the highest of the arts.” Goethe
“...music, when it is perfect, undoubtedly gives the brightest happiness.” Stendhal
“I would wish with all the strength of my soul that my music would bring help and comfort to people.” P.I.Tchaikovsky
“I don't know if there is a single great musician who could be said to be obsolete. The simplest song, coming from the depths of thousands of years, is alive.” A.V.Lunacharsky
“Art is a heart that can think.” C. Gounod
“The poets tell us
what is the music of Orpheus
Trees, rocks, rivers enchanted.
Everything that is insensitive, harsh, stormy -
Always, at least for a moment, music softens.” W.Shakespeare
“Music is the same as a sigh that suddenly escapes from the heart. You feel a lot in it, but it’s not clear to your mind.” S.F. Durov
“Music is a universal language. It exists for everyone – for the poor and the rich, the unhappy and the happy.” L.A. Stokowski
“Music encourages us to think eloquently.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is, first of all, skill, the ability to create things that are perfect in form.” I.F. Stravinsky
“Music is a powerful source of thought.” V.A. Sukhomlinsky
“Music, like any art, conveys the thoughts of the one who created it, the thoughts and feelings of those whom it depicts.”
“The primary source of music is not only the world around us, but also man himself, his spiritual world, thinking and speech.” V.A. Sukhomlinsky
“There are no kinds of music except two – good and bad.” J.Bizet
“What is music if not sounds that change and move through time.” L. Bernstein
“Music is the arithmetic of sounds, just as optics is the geometry of light.” C. Debussy
“What a vast, rich world art is if the target is a person.” M.P. Mussorgsky
“The cardinal advantage of my life has always been the search for an original, my own musical language. I hate imitations, I hate hackneyed tricks.” S.S.Prokofiev
“I experienced the first moments of inspiration in my life while singing in the choir.” R.Shchedrin
“I cannot stand the tragic atmosphere of modern times. I want to create something fun. This is my need.” Strauss
“Only by comprehending the form can one comprehend the spirit.” R. Schumann
“With all the depths of my soul, I hate the one-sidedness that makes many people think that only what they do is the best.” F.Schubert
“We should call it not a stream, but a sea!” L.Beethoven
“Work, - even if your things were not played, not published, did not meet with sympathy, believe - they will make an honorable path for themselves; you have enormous and original talent.” F. Liszt (about Borodin)
“Music is my soul.” M.I.Glinka
“Grieg’s sincere, pure and bright music is designed to awaken “good feelings” in people.” A.S. Pushkin
“I mean the people as great personality" M.P. Mussorgsky
“Scriabin teaches not to be afraid of suffering, not to be afraid of death, but to believe in the victorious life of the spirit.” A.V.Lunacharsky
“I loved everything I did in this moment, and with each new thing I feel like I’ve finally found my way and I’m just now starting to compose.” I.F. Stravinsky
“Hats off, gentlemen, before you is a genius!” R. Schumann (about Chopin)
“Pure, generous, kind, compassionate, he was filled with one feeling, the noblest of earthly feelings - love for his homeland.” F. Liszt (about Chopin)
“Chopin is the bard, the rhapsode, the spirit, the soul of the piano.” A. Rubinstein
“Schubert had the rare ability to “feel and convey the joys and sorrows of life, as most people feel and would like to convey them if they had Schubert’s talent.” B.V. Asafiev
Bach is dear to me...
Well, how can I tell you,
It’s not that there is no music today,
But such a pure crystal
Grace has not yet shown us.
What a balance of passions,
What an all-encompassing conscience,
What an amazing story
About my soul thrown into the ages! N. Ushakov
They say I'm as old as the ancient rivers
That time is running out of my hands forever.
Yes, a lot of it was leaked to no avail, I know.
But, devil, let it be so! May the losses be great
Damn it, my cantatas also exist.
And it’s not my time - but I’ll finish him off. K.I.Galchinsky
“You, Mozart, are God”
...What depth!
What courage, and what harmony!
You, Mozart, are God, and you don’t know it yourself,
I know I am! A.S. Pushkin
... Like a certain cherub,
He brought us several heavenly songs,
So that, outraged by wingless desire
In us, the children of the dust, will fly away later.
N. ZabolotskyBeethoven's Light
On the very day when your harmonies
Overcame a difficult world of work,
The light overpowered the light, passed through cloud cloud,
Thunder moved on thunder, a star entered the star.
And furiously overwhelmed by inspiration,
In the orchestras of thunderstorms and the thrill of thunder,
You climbed the cloudy steps
And touched the music of the worlds.
K. KumiwHe wrote as if at night
I caught lightning and clouds with my hands,
And turned the world's prisons into ashes
In a single moment with a mighty effort.
